Nested attributes don't save and fetch as expected about backbone-mongo

[toddself]

Or is there another way this is supposed to work? Should I be providing some sort of extra template? The examples are pretty light when it comes to saving/fetching nested models.

[kmalakoff]

Hello!

I've taken a look at your code and see that there are some conventions that need to be followed (some undocumented):

1. Add callbacks are of the form "(err, result) ->" - that means "fetch(function(om2) {})" should be "fetch(function(err, om2) {})"

2. The naming convention for models are:

   a) urls are underscored, pluralized: "/innermodel" should be "/inner_models"

   b) relationships are also underscored, but either pluralized or singularized depending on the relationship plurality: "innerModel" should be "inner_model"

3. Because the embedded relationship is stored on the OuterModel, the relationship should be "belongsTo" instead of "hasOne".

Other things

1. Instead of using a url on the InnerModel, you could add a property 'model_name: "InnerModel"' to it (with CoffeeScript in Node, model_name and url are optional).

2. The function around a relationship is only necessary for breaking dependency cycles so "innerModel: function(){return [...]}" could be simplified to "inner_model: [...]"

3. We typically don't use the fetch mechanic, but findOne:

  OuterModel.findOne om.id, (err, om3) ->
    assert.deepEqual(om3.get('inner_model').attributes, om.get('inner_model').attributes)

You can find a working version of your code here. Also, I will update the documentation to make the conventions more clear.

Just let me know if you have any more problems.

[toddself]

@kmalakoff omg thank you so much for going through this! I'm going to go over it and implement the changes :)

Hope you had an excellent holiday!